Tag: Magpie

Good morning, Mr. Magpie

Good morning, Mr. Magpie, originally uploaded by lemasney.
The artist wrote,
This is a Radiohead lyric from their new album King of Limbs. The song is Morning, Mr. Magpie. The lyric, which I messed up in the screencast but fixed in the sketch, is
“Good morning Mr. Magpie/
How are we today/
Now you stole away all the magic/
took my [...]

Magpie, the folk band

Staying with the musical theme this week, I decided to look up bands with corvid-related names and came across a lovely folk duo, Magpie with Greg Artzner and Terry Leonino. I am a big fan of folk and indie music. So let me share Magpie with you.

Play one song here (click the little triangle below)
The [...]

A Crow by any other name

Crow – Kråke
Pronounciation with an extra syllable – Kråkerøy:
http://forvo.com/word/kr%C3%A5ker%C3%B8y/
Magpie – Skjære
This one is kjære – but he pronounces it wrong so it comes close to skjære
http://forvo.com/word/kj%C3%A6re/
Raven – Ravn
An american tries to pronounce navn, he doesn’t quite get it, but its close. The r is pronounced with the tongue at the front [...]

Black-billed Magpie (Pica hudsonia)

Black-billed Magpie (Pica hudsonia)
Originally uploaded by ConstantineD
The Black-billed Magpie is a bird in the crow family that inhabits the western half of North America, from Central Western British Columbia to Southern Manitoba, Kansas, and Nevada. There is also a separate population in Southern Alaska.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-billed_Magpie

Magpie (pica pica) Rhymes

One for sorrow
Two for joy
Three for a girl
Four for a boy
Five for silver
Six for gold
Seven for a secret never to be told.
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One for sorrow
Two for mirth
Three for a wedding
Four for a birth
Five for heaven
Six for hell
Seven you’ll see the de’il himsel’
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One for sorrow, two for joy;
Three for a girl, four for a boy;
Five for silver, [...]

Red-Billed Blue Magpie (Urocissa erythrorhyncha) 01, Wayfarer Retreat, Vijaypur – 29.10.07

Red-Billed Blue Magpie (Urocissa erythrorhyncha) 01, Wayfarer Retreat, Vijaypur – 29.10.07
Originally uploaded by Candle Tree – This too shall pass

Isn’t this a beautiful bird? This is a “Red-Billed Blue Magpie” and it is in the Corvidae family. Here is what the photographer had to say about this bird:
The Red-billed Blue Magpie is a species of [...]

Magpie ‘can recognise reflection’

Scientists discover magpies can recognize themselves. When in front of a mirror, magpies recognize what they look like, that it is themselves they are looking at and when something is off (or as it were, on them).
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